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Show UTAH MUST RAISE FLOUR SUBSTITUTE White Flint Corn Can Be Successfully Suc-cessfully Rais-sd and Would Save Much Wheat Flour. To Produce Substitutes for 25 Per Cent of Our Wheat Consumption it Would be Necessary to Plant 9,500 Acres of Corn. One of the serictis difficulties encountered en-countered in currying out the Food Administration program has been the problem of supplying substitutes for wheat flour. The price of our wheat is bused on the Chicago price, less the freight from Utah to Chicago. Substitutes Sub-stitutes are produced and manufactured manufac-tured in Utah only to a very limited extent. This necessitates their im-portation im-portation .with freight added, making the ratio rf value between wheat prod" nets and substitutes equal to 11,P freight both ways from eastern territory. terri-tory. White Flint corn can he successfully raised in Utah and lend itself readily to small acreages and garden plots It is estimated that there nre approximately ap-proximately G1 ,0( 10,0.0(1 pounds of white flour consumed in this state To pro d.ice substitutes fr 25 per. cent of this, we must produce 15.2.-.0 000 rounds. It is very conservatively estimated, esti-mated, all kinds nf ;nu, con,i,to . ncludod. (hat we should produce 40 intshei.s of White Flint corn to an acre' "Inch ,n turn will lillse , f cornmeal to the bushel, or '.GOO p()l,nds Per a,T0. Therefore, 0.500 acres will produce subsumes fr 25 per cent of our wheat consumption. It is the aim of Fool, A(minls tration no, to alhnv the raising "ho i"l"-'f"-" ".. other neVelsa ' 'n.ps. i,ut ,,,,,. 1 "'. whi, w,d Ithonvise probably not be utilized to the fullest extent. Arrangements are. also, being made with the local mills to provide tM necessary facilities for grinding M eornmeal In order that the substitute nay be Immediately available In all localities. |